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We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan Peterson
Truth
Wise
Together
Marriage
Culture
People
Stronger
Cynical
Enough
Tell
About
Institution
Like
Look
Tie
Another
Where
Place
Really
Means
Ropes
Lives
Things
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler
Work
Wise
Nothing
Universe
Rule
Minimum
Fabric
Some
Perfect
Takes
Since
Most
Does
Maximum
Place
Which
Appear
Creator
As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
Naveen Jain
Good
Wise
Sports
Age
Events
Competition
Father
Healthy
Young
Active
Believe
Spirit
Generally
Proposition
Participation
Involving
Self-Esteem
Well
Young Age
Children
Moving
Far
Themselves
Teamwork
Foster
Keeps
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
Smile
Me
Wise
Rich
Feed
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Mind
Sick
Chatter
Does
Whose
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
Great
Wise
Army
Intelligence
Achieve
Will
Ruler
General
Only
Purposes
Results
Great Results
Highest
Spying
Use
Who
Thereby
Enlightened
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
Nature
Wise
Will
Men
Believe
Eloquent
Others
More
Learned
Witty
May
Acknowledge
Themselves
Many
Hardly
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Competition
Worthy
Only
Himself
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Worldly
Once
Some
Heresy
The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.
Alisson
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Others
Secret
Learn
Errors
The Secret Of
I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
Andy Griffith
Wise
Cranky
Really
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes
Life
Wise
People
Though
Would
Abolish
Laws
Lead
Wise People
Still
Were
Same
Even
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Arthur Eddington
Wise
Light
Debate
Rest
Our
Sun
One Thing
Weight
Rays
Least
Leave
Go
Oh
Straight
Certain
Measures
Near
Thing
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
Bai Ling
Sad
Myself
Me
Crazy
Wise
Living
Mini
Inside
Spirit
Dressing
Spirits
Mischievous
Feel
Like
Always
Discover
Handsome
Often
Short
Eight
Then
Skirts
Start
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
Sad
You
Wise
Money
Poverty
Well
Makes
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
Chris Kattan
Wise
Man
Wise Man
World
Nice
Kind
Some
Pocket
Like
Sound
Trying
Little
Realize
Turned
Your
Whole
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume
Government
Wise
People
Will
Every
Secure
Easy
Abound
Most
Rendering
Well
Always
Condition
Subjects
Commodities
Just
Riches
Mild
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes
Democracy
Wise
Despot
Security
Generally
Advantage
Safeguard
Known
Suspicion
Which
Against
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Diogenes
Wise
Distinguish
Counselors
Generally
Takes
Leaders
Wise Person
Because
Person
Them
Themselves
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Du Mu
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Will
Men
Stupid
Employ
Employer
Stupid Man
Brave
Brave Man
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale
Great
Wise
Anger
Fire
Immediately
Out
Ado
Come
Like
Does
Get
Again
Flint
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
Emile Zola
Truth
Wise
Tears
Everything
Lies
Paris
Foolish
Smiles
Sale
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Clever
Enough
Takes
Clever Man
Turn
Cynic
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Misfortune
Greatest
Convention
Unhappiness
Based
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Wise
Experience
Men
Proportion
Capacity
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova
Nature
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Balance
Wait
Power
Met
Recovered
Seldom
Over
Until
Himself
His
Truly
Who
Beings
Even
Sufficient
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